Seneca County
One row, and it is three and a half miles out under a short line
A single rail-yard row is attached to Ovid: KENDAIA, recorded under the Finger Lakes Railway, 3.44 miles from the Census centroid and attached by nearest-centroid fallback. The fallback is the part worth reading — the coordinate does not fall inside the village at all, and Ovid was simply the nearest place that had a page.
What it handles could not be determined from any source we read. A short line rather than a Class I is at least a different sort of neighbour from most of this lane, but the list does not say what runs there and we are not going to invent it.
What was measured, and where
So the figures worth quoting are the state’s rather than Seneca County’s
That is the honest limit of the paragraph above, and it runs to the roads as well. Nobody measured one here. No node in this county carries a bridge reading, and borrowing one from a county that does would be a claim about Seneca County that nobody has earned.
Statewide there is something worth having. New York maintains 43.2% of its structures and its counties 35.7%, with towns and municipalities holding the rest. Four tiers, and out in farm country the tier a loaded truck actually meets is often the smallest of them — so a county that posts nothing has said nothing at all about a town bridge on a back road.
If somebody local has told you about a particular crossing between the lakes, they are the better source. We have not read it, so we are not writing it.
FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025; items 21, 41, 64 and 70. Ratings are the gross weight of the rating vehicle, not a payload.
New York weight law
And farm work gets a cheaper permit, not a heavier load
Which is the piece most often got backwards out in country like this.
Vehicle and Traffic Law § 385 caps gross weight at 80,000 lb, and at 82,000 lb where the engine runs primarily on natural gas — an allowance that turns on what the engine burns rather than on the cargo. Beneath the ceiling, 22,400 lb is allowed on a single axle and 36,000 lb on two consecutive axles less than eight feet apart, against federal figures of 20,000 lb and 34,000 lb. New Jersey uses the same 22,400 lb single-axle figure, which makes it a regional number rather than a New York one.
Federal limits govern the interstate system, so the higher state figures are non-interstate ones. A truck that ran to the state number on state roads carried more than its mileage suggests.
N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 385. Information, not legal advice.
New York paperwork
We need a title — unless it never had one
Beyond the permits, the paperwork comes down to that one sentence.
Everything after it is a fix rather than a category. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there is a bonded route. New York reaches its salvage brand by four separate routes, and its seventy-five per cent repair-cost test applies only to a vehicle eight model years old or newer, so on an older truck it does not arise. Once applied the brand is permanent, and the DMV must examine a rebuilt vehicle for stolen parts before it can be registered or titled.
New York DMV, salvage and rebuilt-salvage titling. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the date the rule file was last verified.
What we buy in Ovid
Which brings it back to the truck, whatever it happens to be. Farm trucks and grain hauls off the country round the village. Dump trucks, box trucks, flatbeds, day cabs, service bodies, and the work trucks and pickups that go out with a crew.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them, anywhere in Seneca County and well past the 3.44 miles to a yard that is not even in the village.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Small things — a missing bumper — are fine.
Straight answers
The questions we get asked in Ovid
- Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
- The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled out and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
- What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. A lost title has a counter replacement; where none exists there’s a bonded route.
- It is a farm truck that only works a few weeks a year.Common through Seneca County and not a problem. Seasonal use and low road miles are an ordinary shape rather than a sign of anything, and New York’s farm relief is a cheaper permit rather than a heavier load, so it says nothing about the truck either.
- This page does not say much about Ovid.It does not. The one row attached here is 3.44 miles out under the Finger Lakes Railway with no commodity recorded, and nobody has measured a road in the county. We would rather write that than guess.
Why people call
Beyond a truck that has finished its working life, the reasons are personal ones. Retiring. A farm that changed hands. A medical that went the wrong way.
Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for, anywhere in Seneca County — and the buyer is rarely down the road, which is our end of it rather than the 3.44 miles to a rail yard.
New York weight and title rules current as of August 2026 — verify with the New York DMV and NYSDOT before acting on them. Sources: the New York Consolidated Laws, the New York DMV, NYSDOT, plus the central node list.